The World - News from Oct. 23, 1985
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Lebanon’s Parliament met for the first time in two months as rival Beirut militias clashed nearby with machine guns and mortars. The gunfire did not interfere with the meeting, and Hussein Husseini, a Shia Muslim, was reelected Parliament Speaker for another year. Meanwhile, new talks opened in Syria on ways to end Lebanon’s 10 years of civil conflict. Elie Hobeika, leader of the Lebanese Forces, the country’s main Christian militia, met in Damascus with Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam.
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